Example sentences of "would [vb infin] us [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd say , nothing , we 've just been up there , and he 'd smack us across the chops with the er gloves , and say , go on , and do n't let me see you here again . |
2 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
3 | The driver would take us to the police . |
4 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
5 | It would remind us of the days of our youth mixing with Greeks and Arabs and Armenians in strange corners of the world . ’ |